[!][HH 1 vs 1] Why did you come here? (Nuru/Zar) FIN

[Baneful]

His yellow eyes did not blink, distant and cold as Nuru bit him.

The flinch was some remnant instinct, he didn't truly feel the pain, merely anger that he was delayed in his pursuit of home.

He was still unfocused however, and even lashing out at the barghest seemed dazed and fumbled.

HP 47
DMG: 3
ROOM EFFECT - EQUAL BACKLASH
 

[Saliru]

As soon as Nuru realized what he was doing; he tried to stop. Tried. But something else urged him onward. To keep going, to keep fighting. Maybe this was the only way?... The only way to cure him... The only way to help?

He thrashed about in a frenzy, biting anything he could.

HP - 24/40
DMG - 3
Effect - EQUAL BACKLASH
 

[Baneful]

The struggle was inevitable, but it had to be managed. Nothing could stand in the way of home.

There was no regret, no remorse for what he did, simply lashing out with his tail in addition with his claws, dispassionate, furious but most of all relentless.


HP 38
DMG: 6
ROOM EFFECT - EQUAL BACKLASH


 

[Saliru]

There was a cry somewhere between a blood-curtling scream and a yelp as gostly blue skin was torn and soot began to spill forth.

Nuru wanted to help you Zar... he just wanted to... but he couldn't... he was slowly starting to realize all of this may be in vain. He was going to go out failing to do his only duty in this world. Failing to protect that which meant so much to him... A failure... he continued to try despite this but his blows were growing more and more weak... they had no effect on the whisps and fog around him.

He couldn't tell Zar from the mist anymore...

HP - 18/40
DMG - 0
Effect - EQUAL BACKLASH
 

[Baneful]

The mist was his ally.

He was perfect.

He would go home.

The desperate thrashings of the Barghest, his fight against what he could not hope to overcome were futile, a postponement of the inevitable.

He had hated inefficiency.

This time the swing was brutal, slash after slash after slash of razor sharp claws, preceded only by a guttural snarled - and entirely predictable - word.

HP 21
DMG: 17
ROOM EFFECT - EQUAL BACKLASH
 

[Saliru]

The screams were louder this time as black soot slathered all over the grounds beneath Nuru. He reached out, desperate as the world swirled in one chaotic mess above him. All he could hear was a loud ringing... a loud ringing and one, singular, wretched little word.

Home.

There was no home waiting for him, not without Zar. So as he reached out and seized what he could; he sunk his teeth into that sickening mist one last time and held on for all he had left in him.

He refused to let go.

HP -7/40
DMG 8
Effect EQUAL BACKLASH
 

[Baneful]

Persistant, persistant little shapes in an obtrusive little world.

His patience snapped.

With a gruesome finality he absolutely dismantled the foolish creature clinging to him.

There was a fleeting moment when he found himself thinking with deep and aching longing of home. Was that sadness?

He turned and vanished into the fog.

HP 3
DMG: 17
ROOM EFFECT - EQUAL BACKLASH

 

[Saliru]

That creature absolutely burst at the seams under Zar's relentless assault. Black soot splattering all over the ground before drifting off into and joining the mists.

Nuru had failed to fix Zar and go home... or had he?... Was Nuru truly the broken one all along? Zar merely fixing him, too?

The mists swirled again and from within glinted two yellow oddly canine eyes.

Nuru got all that he wanted. Though he could only remember half of it now.

Nuru was going home and he wasn't going there alone.

HP -24/40 (dissipated)